President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a jurys finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
Trumps lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were propped up by a series of indefensible evidentiary rulings" that allowed Carroll's lawyers to present highly inflammatory propensity evidence against him.
Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host, testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower.
The jury also found Trump liab

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